Meaning exists in between mind and body, reason and desire. The structure of meaning is captured in the great Western metaphor of the “idea become flesh.” The source of the idea become flesh is love: “God so loved the world” that the divine took on human form. Love is the source of meaning, and all meaning is miraculous. This is a world beyond the conceptual capacities of liberalism. Yet it is our world. The feverish turning from private to public, and public to private–the mixing and elision of the categories–characteristic of the self-reflection within the liberal state expresses just this disjunction between the experience of meaning and the categories of liberal thought. Because meaning is neither public nor private, neither mind nor body, liberalism ends in a hopeless confusion of categories as it tries to account for the experience of the political.
—Putting Liberalism in Its Place

I’m not sure how intelligible this paragraph is out of context, but I hope it will at least whet your appetite for Kahn’s book, since it encapsulates some of his strengths (introducing love and meaning to a political discourse in which these terms are either taboo, or reduced to interest and reason respectively) and weaknesses (so far, he’s contented to describe a sacralized politics without criticizing it, noting that it shares a side with fascism, or offering a possible hierarchy of authorities).